![]() ![]() Kostova was intent on writing a serious work of literature and saw herself as an inheritor of the Victorian style. The Historian has been described as a combination of genres, including Gothic novel, adventure novel, detective fiction, travelogue, postmodern historical novel, epistolary epic, and historical thriller. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for US$2 million. ![]() Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad ČšepeČ™ and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. Although the book is a vampire novel, Kostova promised herself "that only a cup of blood would be spilled" in the novel. The Historian's first edition cover shows a blood red curtain with a snippet of a picture of a man's face laid across it. ![]()
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